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Seris

  • plural
    of Seri.
    Seri
    noun
    a member of an Indigenous people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.

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I was hoping Bill Plaschke would reassure me that the Dodgers’ recent trade solved our bullpen problems and that all systems are go for the World Seris.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2018

The Seris often take birds in this fashion.

From My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young by James Cox

Among the American Indians some tribes, e.g. the Sacs, Foxes and Sioux, used rough hewn wooden coffins; others, such as the Seris, sometimes enclosed the corpse between the carapace and plastron of a turtle.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various

The Seris made constant trouble, and when attacked retreated safely to Cerro Prieto.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

It is believed that no other human being approaches the Seris in celerity of movement.

From My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young by James Cox

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